black nocturnal
Chrystel M. Oloukoï, PhD Candidate, African and African American Studies & Anthropology
Taking the night as metaphor and methodology, “black nocturnal” is a series of experimental shorts that explores epistemologies of the dark entangled with logics of surveillance and criminalization in the afterlives of slavery and colonialism. Via an aesthetic of fragments, obliqueness and underexposure, this series refuses the violence of visualization, and asks what ways of seeing, knowing, and being might emerge from engagements with dark matters. By design unfinished, “black nocturnal”, is a continuously expanding archive of engagements with nighttime and surveillance in Lagos primarily, but also Boston.
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